Rethinking Faith Heidegger between Nietzsche and Wittgenstein [Paperback]

Heidegger has often been considered as the proponent of the end of metaphysics in the post-Hegelian philosophy, due to his persistent attempts to overcome the onto-theological framework of traditional metaphysics. Yet, this dismissal of metaphysical, theological, and religious motives is deeply ambiguous since new forms of metaphysical and religious experience re-emerge in his philosophical works. Heidegger shares this ambiguous relation to the notions of faith and religion with authors such as Nietzsche and Wittgenstein whose works are also marked by a critique of metaphysics and by a characteristic rethinking of the role of faith and religion. In fact, all three still remain, among other things, reference points for contemporary philosophical debates relating to the phenomenon of religion and faith.Rethinking Faithexplores how the phenomena of religion and faith are present in the works of Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein, and how these phenomena are brought into play in their discussion of the classical metaphysical motives they criticize.

Acknowledgements
Contributors

Introduction

Part 1: The Phenomenon of Religion
1. Understanding Religious Faith: A Hermeneutical Approach
Ben Vedder (Radboud Universityin Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
2. Is Ontology the Last Form of Idolatry? A Dialogue between Heidegger and Marion
Claudio Tarditi (University of Turin, Italy)
3. A Religious End of Metaphysics? Heidegger, Meillassoux, and the Question of Fideism
Jussi Backman (University of Jyv?skyl?, Finland)

Part 2: Faith and Reason
4. How we, too, are still pious.: The Status of Truth and the Irreducibility of Faith in the Work of Nietzsche
Carlotta Santini (Princeton University, USA)
5. Dionysius, Apollo, and otherG?ttliche: Denial and Excess of Meaning in Nietzsche, Heidegger and Wittgenstein
Tobias Keiling (Albert-Ludwigs-Universit?t Freiburg, Glc°